Cider Planet: Excerpt
By Claude Jolicoeur, Resilience.org
One long-standing question, which is unresolved within the cider community, is that of a good definition of cider.
Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme
By Josefina Skerk, ARC2020
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
The Seed Detective: Excerpt
By Adam Alexander, Resilience.org
Fortunately, many of these very earliest breeds of carrot are still with us and, regardless of what they are called, they are a culinary delight.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
By Jocelyn Siegel, Medium
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
Meet The Farmer-Bakers Proving Their Skills
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
Here in their on-farm bakery, between batches of bread, Sébastien and Fabienne share their views on life as farmer-bakers.
From religion to science, and back
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The challenge is to unleash these spirits of enquiry and autonomy from the realm of blank collective control which, nowadays, is bound up in state-backed corporatism and narratives of human progress.
As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
We’re talking about the future of humanity. I think people don’t realize that we’re making those decisions now by our water policies and by our climate change policy.
Not a Garden
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Living systems do not like ego. Do not follow conventions. Do not conform to the color wheel. They do what they want, what they must, to live, to thrive.
With Old Traditions and New Tech, Young Inuit Chart Their Changing Landscape
By Cheryl Katz, Hakai Magazine
As the coastline changes rapidly—reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt—Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity.
Just Peachy!
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I have a strong inclination toward hygge culture. This is not merely that I like being comfortable and among friends… or maybe it is… because those are far more profound than our mainstream EuroWestern culture allows… but I tend to think of it in more philosophical terms.
Konda Mason on Land, Race, Money, and Spirit
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Besides embracing cooperatives and community land trusts, Jubilee Justice is dedicated to an open-source, climate-friendly type of rice farming and to courageous "transformational learning journeys" for racial healing.
Living Energy Farm: A Community Free of Fossil Fuels?
By Guénolé Conrad, Low-tech Lab
During their American stopover, the crew of the Nomade des Mers went to the rolling plains of Virgina to meet the Living Energy Farm. An intentional community of a dozen people who have achieved an impressive level of energy and food autonomy thanks to low-tech!